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Ernest A. (Ernest Albert) Baker
1869–1941
Best known as a patient, wide-ranging guide to English fiction, he wrote reference works that helped readers, librarians, and scholars find their way through novels old and new. His interests were unusually broad, stretching from literary history and dictionaries to outdoor writing, especially on caving.
2 Audiobooks
The netherworld of Mendip : explorations in the great caverns of Somerset, Yorkshire, Derbyshire, and elsewhere
by Ernest A. (Ernest Albert) Baker, H. E. (Herbert Ernest) Balch
The public library
by Ernest A. (Ernest Albert) Baker
About the author
Ernest Albert Baker (1869–1941) was an English author, editor, and librarian whose work sat at the meeting point of literature and reference. He is especially remembered for The History of the English Novel, a large multi-volume study published over many years, and for other practical guides to fiction, bibliography, and library work.
Alongside his literary scholarship, Baker also worked on dictionaries and wrote journalism and books on outdoor pursuits. That mix of careful scholarship and practical curiosity gives his writing a distinctive character: he was interested not just in books as art, but in how readers discover, organize, and understand them.
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